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- Comment on Don't tell me what to do. 2 days ago:
If only there was a better way…
- Comment on Could I get a photo of the bag on you? 2 days ago:
My first thought as well!
- Comment on Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus 6 days ago:
The Prosperity Gospel folks go a step further and equate wealth and health with the will of god. That being well-off is the direct result of being in god’s good graces. It side-steps observations of financial inequality in the face of moral equality, by hand-waving exceptional wealth as deserved by truly rare and exceptional people. And that conveniently plays off of confusing causation for correlation, so we arrive at “money = godly.”
For the record: I hate that this has a name and it’s a real thing.
- Comment on spicy one 6 days ago:
I was gonna say. With a crater that large, we all lose.
- Comment on The future is amazing 1 week ago:
“AI e-girl” you say? I know a contractor that might have what you’re looking for.
- Comment on A reboot of the X-Files but this time Scully is always right. Everything has a totally rational explanation and Mulder slowly looses his believe in the supernatural. 1 week ago:
Hot take: Debris was on track for something like that.
It had “new strange” style storytelling with a very grounded Sci-Fi basis, interesting episiodes, and a conspiracy arc to tie it all together. There were also hints at things well beyond the scientific, turning typical X-Files formula inside out: “it’s all explainable phenomena and everyone knows it, but some things take time to understand.” The major flaw here were wooden performances and un-charismatic characters that just fail to pull you in.
That said, there’s no reason to wait for an X-Files reboot. SCP has more than enough lore to get the ball moving, and there’s gotta be a webisode series or small-studio production team out there just waiting for eyeballs and donations.
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 1 week ago:
Yup. They’re called “Whole Paycheck” for a reason.
- Comment on Midweek feels 1 week ago:
This moment calls for more beans. Image
- Comment on Your household smart products must respect your privacy – including your air fryer 1 week ago:
I know everyone points out the problems with Nest, Ring, and various talking/listening/spying agents. For me, one of the worst offenders was a garage door motor that came with WiFi capability. Damn thing has the ability to just open up a door on my house on command. There’s no way am I putting that online.
- Comment on So many invites... 1 week ago:
Real talk: Is this how to elope guilt free? Just cowardly let everyone decline?
I can easily see someone giving overbearing family the slip this way. Just price everything out of reach and go on vacation.
- Comment on Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction 1 week ago:
Workers risk a few things, depending on the job:
- Health
- Time
- Opportunity (could be working someplace else that’s better)
These have a lot of dimension to them, including how one quantifies what “pay” actually is/for, what legal restrictions there are around taking the job (e.g. non-compete, non-arbitration), work/life balance, and so on.
Risk comes into play where the employee takes a bet that the job won’t destroy their health, work only as much as is absolutely necessary, and have taken a position at the optimal balance of responsibility, personal growth, retirement prospects, and income. It’s a risk since there are substantial barriers to changing to a new job, so you can wind up “stuck” in a bad position, but can’t know until after you start.
- Comment on Vomiting Emoji 2 weeks ago:
Finally, we have “thanks, I hate it” as an emoji.
- Comment on Good job 2 weeks ago:
What we want: OS updates that make the system more performant, more accessible, easier to use, smarter at using battery power, and more secure.
Apple: Let’s make everything an unreadable mess and tax the GPU to shit just for fucking UI elements, because we’re out of ideas.
- Comment on Baldur's Gayte 2 weeks ago:
It was uncanny and disturbing back then. It’s uncanny, disturbing, and hilarious now.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 3 weeks ago:
… a new set of knives, a new set of knives, a new set of knives, lisa needs braces, a new set of knives, a new set of knives, dental plan, a new set of knives, a new set of knives, lisa needs braces, a new set of knives, a new set of knives, dental plan, a new set of knives, a new set of knives, a new set of knives…
- Comment on Happy PrIDE Month 3 weeks ago:
Don’t forget SCSI termination. There was always some extra piece of junk you needed to make it all work. No wonder we all have “the box” in the basement/attic with all the extra cables squirreled away.
Now you take a tiny board a little bigger than a stick of gum, and press it onto the motherboard. Smaller footprint than a DIMM, mind-blowing amounts of solid-state storage. Drives? Naw, we just have chips where the "1"s stick around after you turn it off.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 3 weeks ago:
They’ve been trying to bring back online walled-garden systems ever since. Just look at Facebook, or Twitter.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 3 weeks ago:
I don’t trust anyone when I’m on the road.
And you shouldn’t. Everyone is equipped with a lethal weapon masquerading as personal transportation, where safety is predicated on mutually-assured-destruction and the presumption that everyone is a sane actor. Keep your head on a swivel and stay safe out there!
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 3 weeks ago:
You’re right about turn signals.
A lot of people have “target fixation” and telegraph their moves somewhat. I look at where the car is tracking in the lane and what their head is doing (if I can see it). Most people drift left or right on the highway before they change lanes, exit, or turn. It’s no excuse for bad manners, but it helps.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 3 weeks ago:
IMO, the big problem is just a matter of standards and practicality. The bar for a DL is “can operate a vehicle” and not “can safely drive a vehicle in public for extended periods of time.” I agree with periodic re-licensing though; everything else called a “license” seems to need that for a host of reasons.
- Comment on Meta is now a defense contractor 3 weeks ago:
it’s like an engine being allowed to slow down after over-revving it incessantly.
That’s exactly what it feels like. I installed Social Fixer on my browser(s) to make FB at least usable for the few times I have to touch it for event coordination. People ask me what that’s like and I simply say: “Oh, it’s boring now. I only look at status updates for a few minutes and go do something else.” The pull to go back is just… gone. It’s as dull as LiveJournal ever was, and frankly, it’s better this way.
What did I strip out of the feed? Everything that wasn’t generated directly by someone on my friends list. That’s all it took. All the “engagement” is either artificially injected into your feed, or clickbait people pass along because their feed isn’t filtered.
- Comment on Ai Code Commits 3 weeks ago:
It’s already kind of happening. The Curl project is having a really bad time. No idea if the “bug” submissions are themselves automated, but the content of the filings are pure AI nonsense.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Thanks.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Hardly. I added some clarification to my argument.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for clarifying. I’m actually trying to argue the exact opposite of something like “all lives matter”.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Technically, everyone that doesn’t identify as “men”. But it’s done in the abstract, negative space of the message by not saying it. Subtle, but without clarifying things, it’s left open to this interpretation.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It could be an innocent mistake, or if we put our tinfoil hats on for a second, deliberate counter-propaganda aimed at sowing division and dissent by baiting people with otherwise good intent.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I agree. It’s kind of a tightrope these days. As a white, cis, hereto, middle-aged, male, I pretty much clock as the poster-child for privilege. I am palpably aware that crying loudly for any support might just come off as tasteless, or even insensitive in the wrong group.
Yet, a lot of our social ills these days look an awful lot like mental illness, which is poorly compensated for through evil, perpetrated by people that resemble this description. Zero social support means you just listen to Joe Rogan instead, while projecting trauma as hate.
This poster/meme might work better if it aimed for equality and that it doesn’t exclude anyone. Or maybe if it had a quote from research or some person of note about the silent epidemic that is men’s mental/social health issues.
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 3 weeks ago:
break a public pay phone
At the zenith of that technology, the phone company(ies) had already battle tested countless other designs. The newest relics you find are hardened enough to be left unattended in the most vandalism prone areas imaginable. Each one, a little fortress perfectly protecting delicate electronics and a coin-box. Slam it all you want: they’re nigh-on indestructible.
- Comment on Bachelor Chow slabs, anyone? 4 weeks ago:
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